It is fun strategy game where you have to guide an alien back to its space spaceship by removing and adding blocks of the game, Alien SOS had been in development since the summer, although about half the time was waiting for sponsorship and getting the deal finalized.
It’s probaly my favourite game out of the ones i’ve made and I also had a lot of fun developing it.

Here’s a preview image:

Out in a couple of days!!!

Super Click Tester
Test your clicking skills and see how fast you can click, the super clicker measures your time and works out your click speed per second. Can you beat the average of 10?


You can also get the facebook app here. I’ll be making a tutorial on how to make a facebook app exactly like this pretty soon

Sponsorship:

Usually the most you can make on a game is through sponsorship, The easiest way of searching for a sponsor is to head to Flash Game License and sign up, then you just submit your game and get it in front of almost 1000 sponsors. Of course your game must be quite decent to get any sponsership offers at all, but what is great about the site is that you do not have to upload your finished version, you can ask for feedback from other developers while you are in the game making process for feedback on different parts of your game. Once the game is complete and ready to be seen by sponsors, usually you wait for about 2 weeks to a month for an offer. Being patient helps.

You can also send a load of emails to as many portals as possible, the e-mail should ask the sponsor if they would consider the game for sponsorship and provide a link to a version of your game. You might not get a response from the popular portals, but it helps widen your chance of getting seen.

If you do not get a sponsor, It’s not the worst thing in the world, actually it can be a good thing, this means you are completely free with what you do with the game and means you can self sponsor for your website.

Mochiads:

Mochiads is a flash ad network, a great way to make money by displaying an advertisement while your player is waiting for the game to load, you can place ads wherever you want in the game. All you need to do to use this service is to sign up to Mochiads and click add game, you just need to follow the instructions and insert a small amount of code. Once you’ve done this you enter a few details about the game and wait for your game to get approved for paying ads. There are a few problems however with Mochiads, the amount of money you get for the eCPM (1000 ad impressions) differs on the country your game gets played in, for instance create your own TD got 20,000 views in Korea, due to there low eCPM I only got $0.20 however the same amount of ad impressions in the USA makes about $10. Another problem with Mochiads is that you only get payed every $100 which can take a very long time.

Games with sponsorships can also use Mochiads, but it depends on the type of deal you make and how flexible the buyer is.

Kongregate

Kongregate is a flash game website, it does not allow any of the games on the site to show ads such as mochiads, this is because they have their own ad revenue program. the eCPM is very good and does not take that many views to get your first $25, usually around 25,000 views which isn’t that bad and is easier to get payed. There are also other sites that do an ad revenue program like this but Kongregate is most popular.

Good Luck!

This tutorial is pretty much exactly the same as the last one(except for the script changes), So this tutorial assumes you have a way of testing out PHP and mySQL scipts, however if you need to know how to setup PHP refer back to the last login tutorial.

This is what we’ll be making…

It basically the exact same thing as the last one.

Getting started:

Step 1: Creating the flash document

Create a new flash file, select a new flash document AS 3.0.
Save this file and call it something like ‘login.php’

firstly, change the document class to ‘login’.

Now add the ‘Button’ and ‘textInput’ component to your library, these are what we will be using as our buttons and the user’s text inputs.

Now add a new font to your library (this will be the main font you will use), you can do this by clicking on the top right of you library and pressing New Font, choose the font you want and change the linkage or Class to mainFont.

Step 2: Actionscript file

That’s the flash document set up, now for the class file.

Now create a new actionscript file, save it in the same directory as the flash file.

add this to the that actionscript file, you might need to change lines 30 and 31 to where you have put the PHP files:

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package {
	import fl.controls.Button;
	import fl.controls.TextInput;
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;
	import flash.net.URLLoader;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
	import flash.net.URLVariables;
	import flash.net.URLRequestMethod;
    import flash.text.*;
	public class login extends MovieClip {
		public function login() {
			//creating components variables
			var submitButton:Button = new Button();
			var createAccountButton:Button = new Button();
			//font vars
			var font:mainFont = new mainFont();
			var textFormat:TextFormat=new TextFormat();
			//text input component vars
			var userTextInput:TextInput = new TextInput();
			var passTextInput:TextInput = new TextInput();
			//text vars
			var userText:TextField = new TextField();
			var passText:TextField = new TextField();
			var mainTitle:TextField = new TextField();
			var statusText:TextField = new TextField();
			//insert the url for your pages
			var loginURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("http://localhost/login.php");
			var cUserURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("http://localhost/newAccount.php");
			//loader and vars
			var pageLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
			var pageVars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
			//adding to stage
			addChild(submitButton);
			addChild(createAccountButton);
			addChild(userTextInput);
			addChild(passTextInput);
			addChild(userText);
			addChild(passText);
			addChild(mainTitle);
			addChild(statusText);
			//adding event listeners to our loading pages
			pageLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadPageSuccessful);
			pageLoader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, loadPageError);
			//submit button properties + event listener
			submitButton.label="Log In";
			submitButton.x=170;
			submitButton.y=170;
			submitButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,buttonListener);
			//Create Account button properties + event listener
			createAccountButton.label="Create Account";
			createAccountButton.x=20;
			createAccountButton.y=170;
			createAccountButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,buttonListener);
			//username input text properties
			userTextInput.setSize(150, 20);
			userTextInput.x=90;
			userTextInput.y=50;
			userTextInput.maxChars=25;
			//gives protection from SQL injections
			userTextInput.restrict="a-zA-Z0-9_";
			//password input text properties
			passTextInput.setSize(150, 20);
			passTextInput.x=90;
			passTextInput.y=90;
			passTextInput.displayAsPassword = true;
			passTextInput.maxChars=25;
			//gives protection from SQL injections
			passTextInput.restrict="a-zA-Z0-9_";
			//creating main font
			textFormat.font=font.fontName;
			textFormat.size=12;
			//setting user text properties
			userText.defaultTextFormat=textFormat;
			userText.selectable=false;
			userText.embedFonts=true;
			userText.text="username:";
			userText.width=70;
			userText.height=12;
			userText.y=50;
			userText.x=10;
			//setting password text properties
			passText.defaultTextFormat=textFormat;
			passText.selectable=false;
			passText.embedFonts=true;
			passText.text="password:";
			passText.width=70;
			passText.height=12;
			passText.y=90;
			passText.x=10;
			//setting mainTitle text properties
			mainTitle.defaultTextFormat=textFormat;
			mainTitle.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
			mainTitle.selectable=false;
			mainTitle.embedFonts=true;
			mainTitle.text="Log In";
			mainTitle.width=200;
			mainTitle.height=24;
			mainTitle.y=10;
			mainTitle.x=120;
			//setting the status text properties
			statusText.defaultTextFormat=textFormat;
			statusText.selectable=false;
			statusText.embedFonts=true;
			statusText.text="Please log in";
			statusText.width=260;
			statusText.height=50;
			statusText.y=120;
			statusText.x=20;
			//login function
			function checkLogin(user,pass) {
				if (user!=""&&pass!="") {
					submitButton.label="loading...";
					userTextInput.enabled = false;
					passTextInput.enabled = false;
					pageVars.user=user;
					pageVars.pass=pass;
					//telling the loginURL it wants to use the post method of sending vars
					loginURL.method=URLRequestMethod.POST;
					//attaching vars to to the loginURL
					loginURL.data=pageVars;
					//loading the url
					pageLoader.load(loginURL);
				} else {
					statusText.text="One of the text fields are empty";
				}
			}
			//function that runs when the Create user button is pressed
			function newAccount(user,pass):void {
				//is there is text in both fields send out data
				if (user!=""&&pass!="") {
					submitButton.label="loading...";
					userTextInput.enabled = false;
					passTextInput.enabled = false;
					pageVars.user=user;
					pageVars.pass=pass;
					//telling the loginURL it wants to use the post method of sending vars
					cUserURL.method=URLRequestMethod.POST;
					//attaching vars to to the loginURL
					cUserURL.data=pageVars;
					//loading the url
					pageLoader.load(cUserURL);
				} else {
					statusText.text="One of the text fields are empty";
				}
			}
			//page load success listener function
			function loadPageSuccessful(event:Event):void {
				var newVars:URLVariables=new URLVariables(pageLoader.data);
				userTextInput.enabled = true;
				passTextInput.enabled = true;
				if (mainTitle.text=="Create Account") {
					submitButton.label='Create User';
					switch (newVars.accountStatus) {
						case 'success' :
						statusText.text='Account Created';
						mainTitle.text="Log In";
						submitButton.label="Log In";
						createAccountButton.visible = false;
							break;
						case 'username' :
							statusText.text='Username already exists';
							break;
					}
				}
				if (mainTitle.text=="Log In") {
					submitButton.label='Log In';
					switch (newVars.loginStatus) {
						case 'success' :
						statusText.text='You are now logged in!';
						mainTitle.text="Welcome "+userTextInput.text+".";
						submitButton.label="Back";
						userTextInput.visible = false;
						passTextInput.visible = false;
						userText.text = "";
						passText.text = "";
						createAccountButton.visible = false;
							break;
						case 'username' :
							statusText.text='that username does not exist';
							break;
						case 'password' :
							statusText.text='incorrect password';
							break;
					}
				}
			}
			//page load error listener function
			function loadPageError($evt:IOErrorEvent):void {
				statusText.text="There is an error on our server";
				userTextInput.enabled = true;
			    passTextInput.enabled = true;
			}
			//button click listener function
			function buttonListener(event:MouseEvent):void {
				switch (event.currentTarget.label) {
					case "Log In" :
						checkLogin(userTextInput.text,passTextInput.text);
						break;
					case "Create Account" :
						statusText.text="";
						event.currentTarget.label="back";
						mainTitle.text="Create Account";
						submitButton.label="Create User";
						break;
					case "Create User" :
						newAccount(userTextInput.text,passTextInput.text);
						break;
					case "back" :
						statusText.text="Please log in";
						mainTitle.text="Log In";
						submitButton.label="Log In";
						createAccountButton.label="Create Account";
						break;
					case "Back" :
						statusText.text="Please log in";
						mainTitle.text="Log In";
						submitButton.label="Log In";
						userText.text="username:";
						passText.text="password:";
						createAccountButton.visible = false;
						passTextInput.visible = true;
						userTextInput.visible = true;
						break;
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

Test the code out by testing the movie, if this works you can continue onto the next section.

Step 3: mySQL database

To use the PHP scripts you’ll need to set up your database.
Create a new database, call it something like ‘users’ or something along those lines.
Use this code to create a new table within that database.

CREATE TABLE `users`.`users` (
`id` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
`username` VARCHAR( 25 ) NOT NULL ,
`password` VARCHAR( 32 ) NOT NULL ,
`ip` VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL
) ENGINE = MYISAM

Step 4: PHP files

Now create your PHP files.

Create one called login.php and add this, you’ll have to change the database details to your settings:

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<?php
//enter mySQL details
$connection = mysql_connect('localhost', 'your_username', 'your_password')
or die ("Could not connect to mysql because ".mysql_error());
//database
mysql_select_db('your_db')
or die ("Could not select database because ".mysql_error());
$table = 'your_table';
//collecting the sent vars
$user = $_POST['user'];
$pass = md5($_POST['pass']);
$userQuery = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM $table WHERE username = '$user'");
//checking if username exists
if(mysql_num_rows($userQuery) == 0){
print("loginStatus=username");
exit;
}
//checking if the password is right
$passQuery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $table WHERE username = '$user' AND password = '$pass'");
if(mysql_num_rows($passQuery) == 0){
print("loginStatus=password");
exit;
}
//success message
print("loginStatus=success");
?>

and create another file called newAccount.php

add this, again you’ll have to change the database settings:

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<?php
//enter mySQL details
$connection = mysql_connect('localhost', 'your_username', 'your_password')
or die ("Could not connect to mysql because ".mysql_error());
//database
mysql_select_db('your_db')
or die ("Could not select database because ".mysql_error());
$table = 'your_table';
//checking if username exists
$userQuery = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM $table WHERE username = '".$_POST['user']."'");
//if username is used the var accountstatus gets sent back with username
if(mysql_num_rows($userQuery) != 0){
print("accountStatus=username");
exit;
}
//inserting values in to the database and adding md5 encryption to password
mysql_query("INSERT into $table (username,password,ip) VALUES ('".$_POST['user']."','".md5($_POST['pass'])."','".getenv('REMOTE_ADDR')."')");
print("accountStatus=success");
print("&end=end");
?>

and that’s it. Just test that it works and it should be done!

If you have any problems here are the source files

Enjoy

Here are just some of the improvements…

Profiles
user rankings
search bar
You can save up to three maps
Highscores table for every map
200+ tiles
you can add a map you made to your website
30 waypoints
And alot more!

You can play the full version here

Enjoy!

Here are some pictures of my favorites

Heavan Vs Hell by Sharpie markers:

The Level45 by Venima:

deathisland by lost1010:

awesome maps

Well done to Azure who’s maps have been at the top of the portal since the game was released!

Get ready for create your own TD 1.5! coming VERY soon

In this tutorial we will create a user account login screen, and also a user creation screen. Using a mixture of PHP and mySQl.

preview:

this is what we’ll be making (sorry for the terrible graphics lol)

you can create an account, then you can log in with it

Step 1: Setting up PHP

Before you start creating the login screen you have to be able to run PHP, skip to step 2, if you already have a way of running a PHP file

PHP is a server side language that can’t just be run on its own like HTML, however you can install a set of tools that let you run it from your own computer (XAMPP), or if you have a server it’s very likely PHP is already set up.

Step 2: Creating the flash document

Start by creating three frames, give frame one a frame label of ‘login’, frame two a label of ‘createAccount’ and frame three a label of ‘loggedIn’.

In frame one (login) and frame two (createAccount) create two input text fields, give one an instance name of ‘username’ and the other an instance of ‘password’.

Just below these text fields add a new text field and make its behaviour multiline, this text field will show any errors with the login process. Give the one on frame one an instance of ‘loginStatus’ and the one on frame two an instance of ‘accountStatus’.

Make sure the text field ‘password’ has a behaviour of password.

On frame three add one last text field and make it’s variable name ‘welcomeText’

Now create a ‘create account’ button, ‘login’ button and a ‘back’ button, you can change the graphics to whatever you want and also give them any library name you want. however the instance names should be:

put the buttons in each frame as shown:

Now to add the code

Create a new layer called actions, and on frame one insert this (change line 49 to where you will put your PHP files):

stop();
//helps prevent mysql injection
username.restrict = "A-Za-z0-9";
password.restrict = "A-Za-z0-9";
//declaring the object you will send to the PHP script
sendingVars = new LoadVars();
recievingVars = new LoadVars();
//the create account release function
createAccountBtn.onRelease = function() {
	//goes to frame two
	gotoAndStop("createAccount");
};
//when the recievingVars get sent back
//this is where you can collect the variables
recievingVars.onLoad = function(success) {
	if (success) {
		//the var loginStatus sent from the PHP script
		Status = recievingVars.loginStatus;
		//checking what the loginStatus was
		switch (Status) {
			case "success" :
			    user = username.text;
			    welcomeText = "welcome "+user+" you are now logged in";
				gotoAndStop('loggedIn');
				break;
			case 'username' :
				loginStatus.text = 'there is no such username';
				break;
			case 'password' :
				loginStatus.text = 'you have entered the wrong password';
				break;
		}
	} else {
		//if nothing was sent back, the text variable
		//loginStatus will get this text
		loginStatus.text = "Server offline, sorry";
	}
};
loginBtn.onRelease = function(){
	//checking if anthing has been written in the text fields
	if(username.text == ""||password.text == ""){
		loginStatus.text = "you have not put any text in one of the text fields";
	} else {
	//add the username variables to 'sendingVars'
	sendingVars.username = username.text;
	sendingVars.password = password.text;
	//sending the object to the login script
	sendingVars.sendAndLoad('http://yourURL/login.php',recievingVars,"POST");
	//add a loading message
	loginStatus.text = 'loading';
	}
}

on frame 2 insert this (change line 43 to where you will put your PHP files):

stop();
//helps prevent mysql injection
username.restrict = "A-Za-z0-9";
password.restrict = "A-Za-z0-9";
//declaring the object you will send to the PHP script
sendingVars = new LoadVars();
recievingVars = new LoadVars();
//back button release function
backBtn.onRelease = function() {
	//goes to frame one
	gotoAndStop("login");
};
//when the recievingVars get sent back
//this is where you can collect the variables
recievingVars.onLoad = function(success) {
	if (success) {
		//the var accountStatus sent from the PHP script
		Status = recievingVars.accountStatus;
		switch (Status) {
			case "success" :
				gotoAndStop('login');
				break;
			case 'username' :
				accountStatus.text = 'that username has already been taken, sorry';
				break;
		}
	} else {
		//if nothing was sent back, the text variable
		//accountStatus will get this text
		accountStatus.text = "Server offline, sorry";
	}
};
createAccountBtn.onRelease = function(){
	//checking if anthing has been written in the text fields
	if(username.text == ""||password.text == ""){
		accountStatus.text = "you have not put any text in one of the text fields";
	} else {
	//add the username variables to 'sendingVars'
	sendingVars.username = username.text;
	sendingVars.password = password.text;
	//sending the object to the new account script
	sendingVars.sendAndLoad('http://yourURL/newAccount.php',recievingVars,"POST");
	//add a loading message
	accountStatus.text = 'loading';
	}
}

add one last small piece of code to frame three:

backBtn.onRelease = function() {
	//goes to frame one
	gotoAndStop("login");
};

And thats the Flash Part set up, YAY!, although you can change the layout of the login screen to whatever you want and mess around graphics until you have it customized to your style.

Step 3: setting up the mySQL database and tables

using phpmyadmin or whatever program you use to edit mySQL databases, Create a new database and call it whatever you want(but remember the name), and create a new table called ‘users’ it should have three fields ‘id, username, password’.
Here is the table structure:

now we are ready for the PHP section!

Step 4: PHP files

create a new file called login.php using notepad or even better an editor that supports syntax highlighting. link
(enter your database details on line 3 and line 5)

<?php
//enter your mySQL info
$database = 'your_database';
//enter mySQL user info
$DBinfo = mysql_connect('localhost', 'your_username', 'your_password');
 
 
//checks for correct user and password
if(!$DBinfo){
die('could not connect to mySQL because:' . mysql_error());
}
//selects your database
$db_selected = mysql_select_db($database, $DBinfo);
//checks if database selected is correct
if (!$db_selected) {
    die ('cannot connect to database because: ' . mysql_error());
}
//getting variables sent from flash
$user = $_POST['username'];
//adding md5 protection to compare with the version in the database
$pass = md5($_POST['password']);
//checking for username
$userQuery = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM users WHERE username = '$user'");
if(mysql_num_rows($userQuery) == 0){
//if there is no username
print("&loginStatus=username&");
exit;
}
//checking if password  is correct
$passQuery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '$user' AND password = '$pass'");
if(mysql_num_rows($passQuery) == 0){
//if password is wrong
print("&loginStatus=password&");
exit;
}
//success message
print("&loginStatus=success&");
?>

Now create a file called newAccount.php and add this code to it (again, enter your database details on line 3 and line 5):

<?php
//enter your mySQL info
$database = 'your_database';
//enter mySQL user info
$DBinfo = mysql_connect('localhost', 'your_username', 'your_password');
 
//checks for correct user and password
if(!$DBinfo){
die('could not connect to mySQL because:' . mysql_error());
}
//selects your database
$db_selected = mysql_select_db($database, $DBinfo);
//checks if database selected is correct
if (!$db_selected) {
    die ('cannot connect to database because: ' . mysql_error());
}
//getting variables sent from flash
$user = $_POST['username'];
//adding md5 protection to compare with the version in the database
$pass = md5($_POST['password']);
//checking if username already exists
$userQuery = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM users WHERE username = '$user'");
if(mysql_num_rows($userQuery) != 0){
//if username exists
print("&accountStatus=username&");
exit;
}
//inserting into user the user and pass
mysql_query("INSERT INTO users (username,password) VALUES ('$user','$pass')");
print("&accountStatus=success&");
?>

Now upload the PHP files to your server or put in htdocs of your localhost and test, everything should work

if you can’t get it to work here are the source files

I will be converting this to as3 very soon…

Luke

Create your own TD

Description

Have you ever played an element defense game but wanted to make your own one? with “create your own tower defense” you now can, you can design your own tower defense maps and upload to the tower defense portal, where people from all over the world can play and rate your game, create your own tower defense contains an enemy customizer, a tower editor, a wave editor, and much more to give you complete control of the game.

You can play it here

Wait for create your own TD 1.5…

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Luke